Alexa Stone and the Lake of Fire

Book one in the Alexa Stone series. Beyond Alexa Stone’s miserable, hum-drum human existence, a battle to maintain the balance of the Elements has been waging for centuries. Unbeknownst to her, her fate does not include the small-town subsistence, thankless job, and uncaring foster family that make up her current life. She discovers, through the stranger Landon Knight, that the destiny she has inherited from her biological parents is much greater than the one she has been living. Alexa Stone is an Elemental. She can manipulate water. And she has a convivial home in the capital city of the Atlantic Ocean, Obsidian. Alexa is soon introduced to an underwater civilization complete with apprenticeship programs, palaces, magical creatures, broths, water manipulation spells, and new friends that she never dreamed existed. But when a threat carries over from her parent’s past into her new present and endangers those closest to her, Alexa has to make a decision: risk her life — and her powers — or sacrifice her loved ones.